It is indeed state budget time, and AFTA’s Tim Mikulski has a helpful round-up of some of the early arts advocacy fights on the horizon for this year. So far, Rhode Island’s 58% cut is looming largest, but Louisiana is close behind as Gov. Jindal wants to halve the state’s Department of Culture, Recreation, andRead More
On Vision, Ripples, Expression, and the Mysterious Other
Alarm bells are nothing new in arts circles. For as long as anyone can remember, arts practitioners have been fretting about the future. It’s understandable; after all, the arts have never been an especially profitable enterprise on the whole, and ever since the concept of the nonprofit arts institution resulted in the separation of ourRead More
Follow the #NEAcast conversation on Twitter
If anyone is watching the NEA’s live webcast of the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, which is going on for another 40 minutes or so, some other folks have joined the live-tweeting party with me, including Theatre Communications Group and the Artful Manager. Follow on Twitter using hashtag #NEAcast, or if you don’tRead More
The 5th Annual Yale School of Management Philanthropy Conference
This past Friday, I attended the 5th Annual Yale School of Management Philanthropy Conference. I have quite a bit of history with this young conference, having co-Chaired last year’s edition and put together a panel for 2007’s (part I, part II). My report on this one, “Harnessing Resources and Leveraging Strengths,” won’t be quite asRead More
Another NEA webcast tomorrow
I guess last month’s NEA Cultural Workforce Forum went so well that the leadership of the National Endowment for the Arts has decided to do it all over again less than three weeks later. Tomorrow, December 10, the agency will unveil its new survey on public participation in the arts, highlights of which were releasedRead More
Archive of NEA Cultural Workforce Forum now available for viewing
If you visit this site, you’ll be able to watch the entire webcast of last week’s Cultural Workforce Forum at the National Endowment for the Arts, complete with the slides of the presenters. Please note that the video only works with Internet Explorer and Windows, though the slides can be viewed with Firefox (and presumablyRead More
NEA Cultural Workforce Forum wrap
On Friday, I had the privilege to attend the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum, a convening of researchers who have recently led efforts to measure and understand the work habits and economic condition of individual artists in the United States. The event, though not open to the public, was simulcast on the Internet so that anyoneRead More
NEA Cultural Workforce Forum live stream tomorrow
Hey kids, the National Endowment for the Arts is webcasting a daylong forum tomorrow from 9am to 4:30pm (EST) on the subject of artists in the cultural workforce. The event is heavily oriented toward research, and features a star-packed lineup of presenters such as Maria Rosario Jackson, Ann Markusen, Holly Sidford, and Steven Tepper, amongRead More
Live from … uh … the airport?
It had been my hope to submit reports this weekend from the Net Impact Conference, where I was invited to moderate and present at a panel today called The Creative Economy. Bearing the theme “Changemakers, Innovators, and Problem Solvers,” the conference celebrates, draws attention to, and advocates for the use of business skills in serviceRead More
Around the horn: Net Impact edition
This Friday, I’m excited to be moderating and presenting at a panel at the Net Impact North America Conference at Cornell University’s Johnson School. (For those of you who have been following Createquity since the spring, this is the result of the Creative Economy proposal I submitted back in April.) If you happen to beRead More
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